Drawing for Product Designers (Portfolio Skills) by Kevin Henry

By Kevin Henry

This can be either a realistic and theoretical advisor to the visualization concepts utilized by modern product designers, together with freehand sketching, electronic rendering, info pictures, and presentation abilities. 1000's of hand-drawn sketches and machine types were especially created to illustrate severe geometry and express the best way to boost sketches into accomplished illustrations. useful tutorials supply information in developing easy and complicated types, in addition to rendering and supplying context utilizing situations and storyboards. Insightful case stories of prime designers illustrate the entire diversity of alternative visualization recommendations on hand.

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First ideas spring from consideration of a brief and its context and even when they are little more than an intuitive hunch, a designer will want to make them tangible and first expressions of this starting point and initial investigations of its viability are usually quick freehand sketches which begin to establish the physical shape that the untested proposition may take. As they sketch designers also begin to understand better, not only what they should do but what they can do. A good designer does not force an inappropriate concept but rather identifies how the requirements of the brief and the nature of the existing building can be reconciled so that each enhances the other.

The drawing is made by hand, using drawing board, parallel motion and set square. 64 Conception The section The hand drawn section The switch from loose freehand to precise scaled drawings is as vital for the development of a section as it is for a plan. As for a plan, drawings, however perfunctory, will record decisions made in the progression of a project, enable retrospective analysis and provide material for an examination of where momentum or direction has been lost. While the ambiguity of the freehand drawing leaves room for creative interpretation, the precision of computer-generated images can also prompt fresh thinking.

The plan 63 Left In this overlay of the plan of an existing foyer space, the columns and walls are minimally indicated because the detail of the original plan was visible through the tracing paper. The existing balcony above is indicated using the established convention of a dotted-and-dashed line, and its supporting structures – the curved and the shaded walls – are drawn with a little more detail because they were initially considered crucial to the development of the project. Indication of the new elements is perfunctory because there is, as yet, no clear idea of their form.

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